Tuesday’s findings indicate that oil from BP’s Deepwater Horizon spill is still quite prevalent. A total of 148 tar balls were collected during the survey, amounting to 1.35 pound of Deepwater Horizon oil product removed from these sections of beach – by just two people.

Since the end of BP’s official cleanup efforts in June 2013, over 51,400 tar balls and 3,953 pounds of Deepwater Horizon oil have been documented and removed from Florida’s beaches alone (not including Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana or Texas). On an average survey day, the FDEP team (one to two people) covers no more than 1,000 yards of beach, less than 1% of Florida’s shoreline that was impacted by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Therefore, these numbers represent a very limited snapshot of residual oiling on Northwest Florida’s beaches. For instance, this is an example of the ground covered in an average survey:

From this data, it appears BP has left town well before the job was done. So much for the company’s “Commitment to the Gulf.”

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